By Joanne Cubbs and Eugene W. Metcalf
illiam Hawkins painted the world and its wonders. His universe was inhabited by grinning Tasmanian tigers, red-eyed rhinos, spotted turquoise cheetahs, and other exotic creatures. In his paintings, he traveled imaginatively to amazing places, capturing scenes from America's Wild West, the snow-draped land of the Alps, and the mysterious Taj Mahal. Hawkins' nearly encyclopedic repertoire of subjects not only traversed great distances but also spanned millennia, from the birth of Jesus Christ to the death of George Washington, from the gigantic dinosaurs of the earth's evolutionary past to images of the contemporary urban landscape surrounding the artist's home in Columbus, Ohio.
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